Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Robust prediction of moiré material topology
Valentin Crepel (Flatiron Institute)
Moiré materials have recently been envisioned as condensed-matter quantum simulators [1] due to their highly tunable low-energy properties controlled by chemical composition, stacking configurations, twist…
Astrophysics Seminar: How Well Can Cosmologists Do Astrophysics Using Line Intensity Mapping Observations?
Anirban Roy (NYU)
In the last few decades, statistical analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations has established the standard model of cosmology with high precision. The next frontier lies in…
CANCELLED: High Energy Theory Seminar: Real-Time Path Integrals, Caustics and Interference
Job Felbrugge (University of Edinburgh)
Interference is one of the most universal phenomena in nature, as exemplified by the real-time Feynman path integral. Despite the ubiquity of interference patterns, their evaluation has often proven challenging.…
Colloquium: Dark Matter Searches and New Constraints from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
Carmen Carmona (Pennsylvania State University)
The existence of dark matter is strongly supported by an abundance of astrophysical and cosmological evidence, but has yet to be directly detected. Liquid Xe detectors have been a game changer in the field of dark…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Driven molecular fluxes control the number size and position of an essential phase-separated organelle in algae
Linnea Lemma (Princeton)
Phase separation of biological molecules has emerged as a key mechanism by which cells organize their interior spaces. Investigating the physical principles by which these biomolecular condensates facilitate cellular…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Comments on the density matrix of the universe in two dimensional quantum cosmology
Andreas Blommaert (Institute for Advanced Study)
I discuss work in progress on obtaining a reasonable density matrix of the universe in two dimensional quantum cosmology. I will do so by comparing aspects of the Hilbert space of closed universes in JT gravity…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Understanding spontaneous assembly in biology: How self-assembly and phase separation work together to build biological structures.
LaNell Williams (Princeton)
How does nature build complex structures from repetitive strands of nucleic acid lipids and proteins? Furthermore how does nature decide upon what physical principles to use to build these structures? We hope to…
Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Neal Dalal (Perimeter)
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Living systems in crowded spaces: from microbial communities to biomolecular condensates
Alejandro Martinez-Calvo (Princeton)
Spatial organization in living systems is crucial for their functioning and is typically achieved in complex environments—from molecular processes in the crowded cytoplasm to microbial collectives growing in…
© 2025 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania